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Ban on live pub music
Friday 28th August 2009, 4:02PM BST.
A Shrewsbury pub has been ordered to stop playing live music after neighbours complained about noise levels.
The Belle Vue Tavern, in Belle Vue Road, must not play live music or provide the facilities for making music following a licence review by Shropshire Council. The pub has also been banned from playing recorded music after 11pm.
And it must fit a noise monitoring device to its jukebox and stop customers from drinking on the pavement after 10.30pm.
But landlord Anthony Norton said he was considering an appeal against the decision taken by the council’s central area licensing sub-committee yesterday.
The pub has been hit with the conditions after Belle Vue Residents’ Association claimed it was undermining public safety and causing a public nuisance.
Residents had also claimed public safety was being put at risk by customers congregating on the pavement to smoke and drink late at night.
Belle Vue councillor Mansel Williams said: “The building is simply too small and inappropriate for the activities being carried out there.
“The music and entertainment and the large number of people on many occasions congregating in the street is having a detrimental effect on the local community.
“I do not think amplified music is appropriate in such a small space.”
Mr Norton admitted there had been some problems but said he had already tried to lessen the pub’s impact on neighbours by shutting doors and windows during live music nights.
He added that policing the pavement area outside the pub would be “very difficult”.
“If the pavement area is taken off me it would affect my business as I have no beer garden people can use,” he said.
During the meeting it emerged environmental health officers had served the pub with an abatement notice over noise levels in 2008.
Tony Mantle, police licensing officer, also revealed he had handled 13 licensing matters connected to the pub since August 2007.
He said one was related to crime and disorder while 10 were public nuisance issues.
By Tom Johannsen
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what about the boarshead pub on belle vue road???? that place is even worse we have told the council numerous times but they don’t do anything about it. ther place is a gathhering for drug dealers and yobs it’s been raided once and still they keep on flouting the law. ridiculous!!
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there are worse pubs in belle vue like the tatty old one opposite where comet cars used to be. all sorts of riff raff are congregating in there and the authorities are not doing anything about it. plus the place in question plays its music loud past midnight. the residents near i know have had enough of the place and want it sorting out.
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What a cheerless bunch of Victorian Dads must live in Belle Vue!
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this is big brother gone mad, typical councillors too much power gone to their heads
out of touch i bet they never go for a beer at the local boozer or hang out with real people
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The Fun Police strike again. Well done Shropshire Council, another nail in the coffin for Shrewsbury’s music scene. Bravo.
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Boring Boring Shrewsbury
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Shrewsbury will soon be a No Music town. How sad as there are loads of talented bands about at the moment.
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This town is going to be like the one in Footloose before long….no music because it corrupts the youth.
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This is a real shame for Belle Vue. A lot has been done for the image of the area as a progressive cultural district of the town (the arts festival for example). Then, as usual, somebody living near to a pub complains about the noise and before you know it, Belle Vue (like the rest of the town) is tossed back into the stereotypical enjoyment wilderness everyone else associates with Shrewsbury.
The presumably self-elected, self-important busybodies calling themselves the Belle Vue Residents Association don’t represent me and I live in Belle Vue. In fact, before this article, I’d never heard of them. Mansel Williams is normally only interested in trains, I’ve certainly never seen him in the Belle Vue Tavern nor any other public house in Belle Vue, so how he can comment on this is beyond me. Needless to say, he won’t be getting my vote next time round.
As for crime and disorder issues, does anyone think that less than 1 every two months in the last two years is bad for a pub on a busy road??
The landlord at the BVT actually injected some life into this pub without going over the top. In fact, much of the music that was put on was acoustic out of consideration for the residents. He’s moving elsewhere and I can’t say I blame him. As for the pub, well I guess once it shuts due to lack of customers then the residents association will be happy and they can then turn their attention to other matters. Cars too noisy on the Belle Vue road perhaps?
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Why does a pub need to play music after 11pm anyway? This is hardly a draconian measure.
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Yobs and drug dealers in Shrewsbury? Surely not!
To hear the residents of Shrewsbury talk it is the most perfect place on earth!
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